The Mattole Integrated Coastal Watershed Management Plan

This document describes MRRP’s plan for watershed restoration and water quality management in the Mattole between 2010 and 2020. It identifies eight specific goals to be achieved during the decade. These goals are approached through eight Key Management Areas, or program types. For each management area, the plan identifies a series of strategies,
each of which lead to a number of specific tasks for implementation by the MRRP. Additionally,the Plan describes prioritization and monitoring approaches to enhance management and restoration actions. MRRP’s ultimate goals for the Mattole are abundant, native salmon runs along with healthy, productive upslope ecosystems and sustainably integrated human communities.

This Plan builds upon previous Mattole watershed planning documents including the North Coast Watershed Assessment Program, Mattole Basin Plan and the Mattole Watershed
Plan, as well as broader planning documents such as the California Ocean Plan, North Coast Integrated Water Management Plan, and California’s Sediment Master Plan.
Implementing the actions described in this plan can be expected to accelerate the recovery of the Mattole watershed and protect its regionally important contributions to salmonid habitat and the conservation of California's biodiversity.The Mattole River and Range Partnership published a watershed plan in Winter 2005. This set forth a 30-year vision for the watershed and an associated 5-year "implementation" plan. The Plan recomends site-specific projects that bring us closer to the long range vision.

This was the first effort of its kind since the MRC published 'Elements of Recovery,' in 1989, which planned sediment reduction projects on a watershed-wide scale. In a similar fashion, the Watershed Plan assesses current conditions in the Mattole watershed and develops projects such as: riparian planting, instream enhancement, invasive plant removal, fuel load reduction, channel monitoring, salmon rearing, restoration forestry, and landscape conservation strategies.

The Mattole Restoration Council, Mattole Salmon Group, and Sanctuary Forest all contributed chapters to the 12 chapter Plan, under the technical oversight of the Mattole Technical Advisory Committee.